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To allwhom t may concern.' 1

. Be it known that I, BENJAMIN J. CAROZZA', a citizen of thexUnited States, residing at Wilkes-Barre,in the county of Luzerne and Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pin- Tickets, ofwhich the following is a specilication, reference beingliad tothe accompanying drawings- This invention relates tocertain improve- A ments in pin tickets and has relation more particularly to a deviceof this general character especially designed and adapted for use in connection with articlesof clothing,

i `dry goods or the like and itl isan object of the invention to provide a device of this general character having. novel and improved" means whereby the ticket is effectively applied to an article together with means carried by theticket and: `cti-acting with the penetrating members'to` effectively protect against injury the party handling the article. 1

It is also an object of the inventionto provide a novel and improved device of this general character including penetrating members spaced one relative to the otherto firmly grip an article and wherein the free end portions of said members coi-act with the ticket proper in such a manner as to prevent removal of the ticket from an article except by Hexing the free end Portions` of said members one toward the other.

` The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of my im-V provedk pin ticket wherein certain important advantages are attained and the device rendered simpler, less expensive andotherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of my invention will hereinafter be definitely claimed.

1n order that my invention may be the better understood I will now proceed to describe the saine with reference to the accompanying drawings wherein:

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a pin ticket constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of 'my improved pin ticket in `applied position, the co-acting portion of an article being in section Fig. 3 is a View in plan of the blank from which` the `ticket proper `is produced, the

.penetratingmeans being omitted; and Y i Fig. 4 is a {view in rear elevation of apin ticket constructedin 'accordance with a further embodiment. of my invention.

`As is particularly illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3 offthe accompanying drawings `my imf Specicaton of Letters lnatent. Patentlgd DEQ, jljl, 191% Application ledAugust `13, 191'7.`` Serial No. 186,031. i

proved device comprises va rectangular body 1 of cardboard or othersuitable material and which has a marginal portion-2 bent `back upon the body 1l and on theline a as indicated by the dotted Vline in Fig 3.; The returned portion 2 is-provided adjacent its free longitudinal marginal portion with the inwardly converging slits 3 arranged adja` cent the Aopposite ends of the returnedportion'Q. 1 ,Asillustrated in 1Figs. 1 andB the slits are straight although, as illustrated in Fig. 4,` the slits 3a may bearranged on-a prede.- terlnined curvaturep A. p M denotes a'securing member formed pref- *erably .of wire and which comprises an inl Etermediate straight portion 4 overlying the rear faces of the body 1 adjacent the margin thereof remote from the returned portion 2. The extremities of the straight portion 4 are angularly disposed as at 5 and directed through the body 1. The portions 5 are continued by the elongated penetrating members or needles 6 overlying the rear face of the body 1 and arranged in convergence.

The members or needles 6 are of such a length as `to overlie the returned portions Q and are adapted to extend through the slits 3 or 3a so that when my improved ticket is in applied position the party handling the article with which the ticket coacts is effectively protected against injury by the members or needles 6. lt is also to be observed that normally the free end portions of the members or needles 6 extend through the slits 3 or 3n inwardly of the inner or lower ends of said slits so that when it is desired to remove the ticket from an article` the members or needles 6 must be forced one toward the other until the free extremities thereof are withdrawn through the slits 3 or 3a.

From the foregoing description, it is thought to be obvious that a pin ticket constructed in accordance with my invention is particularly well adapted for use by reason of the convenience and facility with which it may be assembled and operated and 2 'l Y I y, 21,249,325

it Will also be obvious that my invention isl may be'provided. Also, the improved means a'bov'e referred t0 for protecting the points of the pin' Imay-fbe utilized inieonnection with signs orf tickets of various' other sizes and shapes than' :that illustrated in the aceompanying drawings,y Which' it Will beunderstoodis Vmerely indicative of oneadaptation of invention. Y r'I'.clair'nff v i Au'ticket j of the'y character described eompri'singa Ybody havingonelmarginal portion returned, said returned portion being provided with transversely spaced openings,

a"substantially U`shapedpin having its side members disposed through the opposite en d portion of' the body with the intermediate portion of the pin overlying the same face as- 'the returned-'portion of the body, the sidemembers of thevpin beingl returned to bridge the marginal portion'ofthe body-adjacent the intermediate portion of the pin, said returned portions of the side members of the pin being of a length to extend through the openings in the returned portion of the body.

l 2. A ticket of the character described comprising a body having one marginal. portion returned,"said returned portion being provided with transversely spaced openings, a substantially U-shaped pin having its side members'disposed through the opposite end portion of the body with the in* termediate portionof the pin overlying the sameA face as the returned portion of the body, the side members Vof the pin being re A turned to bridge the marginal portion oi the body adjacent the intermediate portion o1. the pin, said returned portions of the side members of the pin being of a length to extend through the openings in the returned portionA 'of the body, the openings in the returned portion of the body consisting ot elongated slits arranged in planes converging' toivard the bend of the returned portion. A In testimony whereof I hereunto ailix my signature in the presence of two witnesses. BENJAMIN J. CAROZZA.

' Witnesses:

WML B. BeWAN, W. S. DnvANsno.

Copies of this patent may vne obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

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